Garden Ridge, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,030 ft 315 m950 ft 290 m910 ft 275 m830 ft 255 m750 ft 230 m710 ft 215 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Garden Ridge sits at about 910 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 280 m
most residents: 850–970 ft
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the east side
Highest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the northwest side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Garden Ridge spans about 320 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 910 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 710 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Garden Ridge | 890 ft275 m |
| Airport (SAT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi southwest of the city limits | 809 ft247 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Comal County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 4,378 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 613 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 29.6347° N, 98.3053° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Cibolo Creek → San Antonio River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- San Antonio International (SAT) 809 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 78266
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Garden Ridge910 ft
- Live Oak870 ft
- Windcrest810 ft
- Universal City800 ft
- Cibolo780 ft
- Schertz780 ft
- Selma770 ft
- Randolph AFB740 ft
- Converse710 ft
- Santa Clara680 ft
- Marion650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas453rd highest of 1,861
- Towns in Comal County4th highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Startz Hill1,410 ft
- Vogels Peak1,360 ft
- Classen Hill1,230 ft
- Mission Hill970 ft
- Theis Hill930 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.